I need some help, and like many I want to start off with I am learning as I go.
What I have is a driving need to make my solar panels follow the Sun (It’s a want I know), but like most nerds I want to make my own system. I have completed most of it, but I am stuck at this point.
My roof has four different Solar Arrays that will be driven by linear actuators.
So what I was going to do is drive array one with my sun tracking sensor that uses Photo resisters to track the suns movements. It works by sending a simple on off to the UNO board on to dig inputs. The in / out direction is sensed by the polarity on the input. For max and min extension I have limit switches built into the actuators.
So array number 1 is tracking just fine on my work bench, but in an effort to find the tilt position I purchased I2C-ACC I2C +/-2.0g Dual Axis Accelerometer. Attached is all of the information I have on it. This is my issue, for the life of me I cannot find out how to communicate with this, and I think I have gone way past my three weeks of electronic experience.
Can somebody point me in a direction or give me a bit of code. What I want to do is read the tilt angle value from this and then uses that value to move the other 3 arrays to the same position. I was going to create a comparator in the code to do this.
it came from I2C +/-2.0g Dual Axis Accelerometer
Thanks
I2C-ACC-Manual aceleomter.pdf (382 KB)
MXC6202xJ.pdf (301 KB)